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Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading
providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations,
Micron manufactures and markets DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors,
other semiconductor components, and memory modules for use in leading-edge
computing, consumer, networking, and mobile products. Micron's common stock is
traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To learn more
about Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com.
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- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in November 2007 - Micron announced its
entry plans for the SSDs market by saying it would launch a family of SATA
flash SSDs in Q1 2008.
Today, in February 2009 - Micron
markets 2.5" SSDs
under the Crucial SSD brand (which
are also available in an external enclosure or with a 3.5" mounting kit.)
Their Lexar brand
SSDs include ExpressCards for notebooks.
In April 2008 - Micron
and
Nanya Technology
announced they were each investing $550 million in cash in a new joint venture.
In November 2008 - Micron demonstrated prototypes of fast
PCIe flash SSDs with
800MB/s throughput, and hinted that 1GB/s SSDs could be available soon.
The performance itself (for a prototype) is unremarkable - because 3 other oems
already ship flash SSDs with similar (or faster) performance as commercial
products.
Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance
In February 2009 - Micron
announced restructuring plans will reduce employment at their Idaho sites by
approximately 500 employees in the near term and as many as 2,000 positions by
the end of the company's fiscal year.
In July 2009 -
IDT
announced
it was working with Micron
to develop a commercial PCIe flash SSD for the server market. Micron had
previously tested market reaction by unveiling a prototype PCIe SSD (with
800MB/s R/W speeds) in
November 2008.
In December 2009 -
Micron announced it is
sampling
6Gbps
SATA MLC SSDs in 1.8"
and 2.5" form
factors.
Micron's C300 SSD can achieve a read throughput speed of up
to 355MB/s and a write throughput up to 215MB/s.
Editor's
comments:- Long anticipated in StorageSearch.com's
flash SSD Roadmap -
it was inevitable that we would be seeing 6Gbps
SATA SSDs soon,
because several companies have already sampled 6Gbps
SAS SSDs which use the
same physical interface. It was simply a question of when vendors would judge
the market conditions right.
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